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    ‘Privilege-Checking’ Now Part of Orientation at Harvard’s Kennedy School

    ‘Privilege-Checking’ Now Part of Orientation at Harvard’s Kennedy School

    Harvard University’s prestigious John F. Kennedy School of Government used to imbue their graduates with the spirit of public service. As a play on the famous words President Kennedy uttered during his inaugural address, the school’s motto, “Ask what you can do,” fills one with a desire to strive and achieve for the betterment of society. If some get their way, however, that can-do attitude is soon to be supplanted by a paralyzing sense of inadequacy.

    Upon admittance, new enrollees to the Kennedy School will soon be made to take an orientation class in which they are informed of their level of “privilege” and instructed on ways in which they can “check” it. “We’re at one of the most powerful institutions in the world, yet we never critically examine power and privilege and what it means to have access to this power,” said Reetu Mody, a first year master’s student and “campus activist.”

    Yes, the first thing that comes to mind when people think of higher education is a noble contempt for self-gratifying onanism.

    New York Magazine’s Kat Stoeffel indicates that Harvard’s decision to introduce “privilege-checking” into the curriculum may have something to do with the critique the ideology of “privilege” recently received from Princeton University freshman Tal Fortgang. In an essay in his school paper, the 19-year-old nonconformist punctured the paper-thin membrane of logic which protected the idea of “privilege” from being cautiously mocked to outright ridiculed.
    Think other schools will emulate this? What does everyone think of this.

    I think it's hilariously misguided and dumb but I don't think it will hurt Harvard much.
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    what on earth is privilege checking, and how do you check ???

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    Quote Originally Posted by peggleftw View Post
    what on earth is privilege checking, and how do you check ???
    Here you go

    http://www.checkmyprivilege.com/
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    Quote Originally Posted by GreatOak View Post

    i got 20! going for the high score next time!

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    It's a whiny white kid that feels like his accomplishments are belittled by the fact that white males have a societal advantage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by peggleftw View Post
    i got 20! going for the high score next time!
    0 here

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    Quote Originally Posted by GreatOak View Post
    oh man im a shitlord

    is that a good thing or a bad thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quetzl View Post
    oh man im a shitlord

    is that a good thing or a bad thing
    A horrible thing
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    Quote Originally Posted by GreatOak View Post
    Wtf was that "kin" question about?

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    Your privilege level is Extremely Oppressed with a score of -3975



    ​dammit

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    -615. I'm "extremely oppressed". Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quetzl View Post
    oh man im a shitlord

    is that a good thing or a bad thing
    I'm a shitlord as well, scored a 205 hell yeah

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fexus View Post
    Wtf was that "kin" question about?
    It is facetious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by peggleftw View Post
    i got 20! going for the high score next time!
    I got a 40. haha
    Quote Originally Posted by Themius View Post
    We have had multiple threads of white people complaining that black people were offended over some racist thing some white person said.
    Here we have a thread of white people offended over something some racist black person said.
    The key difference is that the white people in this thread aren't being told "shut up stop being offended get over it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quetzl View Post
    oh man im a shitlord

    is that a good thing or a bad thing
    i dont know but im a lvl 145 shitlord apparently

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fexus View Post
    Wtf was that "kin" question about?
    Your privilege, it's showing.
    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
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    Can't even take the damned test. Apparently the person who created it knows nothing of basic geography.

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    Wtf I got disadvantaged at -70 on that quiz.

    Lol privelege checking. What do you expect? It's how the world works. Unfair? Probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelbert View Post
    -615. I'm "extremely oppressed". Lol

    only -615, try -3975

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    That website you linked likes to suck its own dick, and spends more time doing that than actually explaining what it's talking about.

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    Doesn't seem particularly useful really. Mulling over the effect of privilege on our lives is pretty useful and necessary when it comes to dealing with all kinds of isms (racism/sexism/etc) but you can't really force it on people. It's something you elect to do yourself.

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